Performance MattersIrish Theatre Discussion Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PerformanceMatters/ We will be discussing David Harrower's Blackbird which coincidentally is being performing by Mephisto theatre company for the Galway theatre festival (4th,5th Oct.) http://www.mephistotheatre.com/blackbird-by-david-harrower/ For... | Read on »

25 Sept.CiarÌÁn Wallace (TCD) Drawing on minor sources: satirical cartoons in 'The Leprecaun Cartoon Monthly', 1905-1915

The NUI, Galway Finnegans Wake reading group is starting up again this September.Our first meeting will be 1-2pm in the Moore Institute Seminar Room, Thursday 26th September. If you like... | Read on »

Early Modern Travel: Theory and Practice In the early modern period the development of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for travel proliferated in an attempt to make travel a useful and... | Read on »

Seeing the world: Travel, text, image Authors of travel narratives attempting to convey in words their discoveries and observations increasingly turned to images to support their text. In this they... | Read on »

Carla Lessing 'The Civil English and the Wild Irish'. Tudor and Stewart concepts of civility

Elva Johnston, School of History and Archives, UCD ‰Û÷Literacy and conversion in early medieval Ireland: a reassessment‰۪

In conjunction with the Moore Institute, the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and the MA in Culture and Colonialism, ECHO: the humanities research forum presents two compelling talks:THE IRISH... | Read on »

CULTURE AND COLONIALISM FRED FREEMAN on Hamish Henderson Hamish Henderson (1919-2002), poet and songwriter, was one of the outstanding cultural and political figures of the twentieth century. He accepted the... | Read on »

Digital Scholarship Seminar and INSIGHT @ NUIGalway present: Digital Humanities and Journalism Seminar. 12-2pm, Wednesday 9 October, Moore Institute Seminar Room. The first event of the Autumn/Winter series of DSS... | Read on »